Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-03-25
VI tue aItlcleS White men put lnUo GHeu SUOMI
achs very likely eat grasshoppers, ants, mon
keys, elephants and many other things that
have not been introduced into our cuisine
The pure white salt of commerce is the one
article in the nature of food that they are all
glad to get.
-. On some of the islands of the Malay archi-
pelago there are hundreds of natives whose
only industry is to collect the edible birds
nests that are esteemed great dainty by the
Chinese. They wouldn't dream of eating them
themselves, and they think the Chinese must
be very peculiar people to use that sort of
food.
There are number of tribes in Africa
whose chief riches are their herds of cattles
but who never drank a drop of cows milk in
their lives. They think the milk of their
herds is for calves and not for human beings,
and they are disguised at the idea that any
body should consider it a proper article of
food. A few tribes near the great lakes think
that it is a spectacle worth seeing to lock at
the missionaries milking COWS and drinking
the milk. n.
The Esquimaux near Littleton Island once
discovered a supply of bread and salt pork
that DR.. Kane had cached and they pro-
SSCoOo " CuJOy 1Ct1Su etu ti1o diC11 "a
pense. They liked the salt pork and did not
leave morsel of it. This was probably the
first chance they had ever had to vary the
of their meat diet. They nibbled
the bread a little, promptly pronounced it
failure, and told DR.. Kane afterward that
they would as soon swallow so much sand.
A tribe living not far from Port Moresky,
New Guinea, that think boiled snakes are to
be preferred to roast pig, draw the line at
sugar. When they saw Dr. Chalmers their
first white visitor, sweetening his tea one
they asked him for some Of his salt
DIR. Chalmers told them that it was not salt,
but they were incredulous, and SO he gave
some sugar to one of the natives. "He began
eating it," says DR.. Chalmers, "and the look
of disgust on his face was worth seeing; he
rose up, went. out, spat out what he had in his
mouth, and threw the remainder away"
Then he told the crowd what horrible stuff it
was, and they were satisfied to take his word
for it without trying it themselves.
The Great Pension Building.
The interior of the great hall of the pension
building will soon be finished The immense

The interior of the great hall of the pension
stretch of wall has nearly all been plastered,
and some idea can be formed Of what the
completed hall will look like Whatever
difference of opinion there may be as to the
merits of the outside of the building. it will
no doubt be generally admitted that this hall
is grand room. In point of size it is larger
with one exception, than any audience room
in this country, and in point of capacity
stands about fourth in the list of the large
interiors of the world. The great Mormon
tabernacle in Salt Lake City is said to have
the largest capacity of any building in this
country 1t wih seat about 5000 people.
Gen. Meigs, the architect of the pension
building, says that the hall in the pension
building and the galleries surrounding it have
seating capacity of ,3O7 men, The hall
itself is 316 feet long and 116 feet wide, while
it has two tiers of galleries extending all
around it which are 10 feet III width A
third gallery, which encircles the hall hes a
width of feet. Gen. Meigs says ne has esti-
mated that 10000 people can find standing
room in this great space. st. Peters church,
Rome, which is the largest structure in the
world, WILL in the same way, hold $4,000
people, while the Milan cathedral will accom-
nAolate $4,000; ST. Paul's, Rome, $4,000, and
st. Pauls, London, 5000. Gen Meigs says
he has no doubt that the principal portion of
the Inauguration exercises will in the future
be held in this hall, as well as public funerals
and other exercises which attract large
gatherings of the people.-Washington Star.